I stumbled across some page scans from another Amiga site of Amiga User International which contained an interview with Jay Miner from Q2 1988. I used to buy this magazine infrequently but never saw this article before.
This is interesting because up until today the fabled next generation chipset which should have gone in the next Amigas after the A1000, certainly before ECS chipsets, was actually completed it would appear. 128 colours 5 years before AGA? You bet your ass
Not too much detailed information about Ranger, just how much improved things like blitting huge bobs on the screen thanks to VRAM and that it was clearly finished and delivered to Commodore, who never used it once not even in the A500plus days. There's no mention of Paula either except a throwaway comment about 100x larger bandwidth for DMA operations for all custom chips on the chipram bus.
Also has some interesting snippets about pre-OCS capabilities of the chipset and gives you an insight into some amazing facts like due to the A500/2000 being a year late there was no effective promotion of the A1000 in 1986. Crazy to think they could own Amiga and not do anything with it for 12 months!
A nice 3 page article anyway, the story of Amiga told by the father of the Amiga, so enjoy if you've never seen it. A fitting way to remember one of the 70s and 80s most talented engineers in the industry.
http://www.amigau.com/aig/jayminerinterview.html(scans are linked on that page but are a bit ropey to read. I downloaded them and ran a 25% narrowing of the top end luminance levels and a moderate sharpening operation to improve readability of the page scans)
